Scoop-board for wagon-bodies



APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5. 1920.

Patented May 31, 1921.

ATTORNEY WITNESSM 'Q l LE0 H. MEYERPETER, OF ST. THOMAS, MISSOURI.

SCOOP-BOARD FOR WAGON-BODIES.

Application filed June 5, 1920. Serial No. 386,697.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lno H. Mnrnnrn'rnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Thomas, in the county of Cole and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Scoop-Boards for Wagon Bodies, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my present invention is the provision of a simple and durable scoopboard susceptible of ready application to wagon bodies such as at present in general use, and capable of being readily moved from closed position to open position and vice versa, and also capable of being expeditiously and securely fastened in closed position so as to form a reliable end-gate for the wagon body.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, hereby made a part hereof:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation showing my novel scoopboard as closed and fastened in a wagon body.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section showing by full lines the scoop-board in closed position, and by dotted lines the scoopboard in open position.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section, taken in the plane indicated by the line 8-3 of Fig. 1, looking downwardly and illustrating the manner in which the latch levers operate to secure the scoop-board in closed position.

Fig. l is a planview showing the scoopboard in closed position.

Fig. 5 is a detail view with the scoopboard in open position and showing the manner in which the anti-friction rollers on the scoop-board are arranged between the usual gate-receiving strips of a wagon body, and also illustrating the manner in which the arms at the inner ends of the side walls of the scoop-board are adapted to bring up against the inner edges of the innermost strips.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The rear end of the wagon body 1 is open, and at the inner sides of the side walls of the body are the usual strips-2, the strips 2 of each pair being spaced apart, as indlcated by 3.

My novel scoop-board 4 15 preferably of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 31, 1921.

wood, and is provided with side walls 5 dis: posed at rightangles to the board proper. The side walls 5 are provided at their outer sides with anti-friction rollers 6 and said side walls 5 are also provided at their inner ends with angularly disposed, outwardly directed arms 7. The rollers 6 are disposed and movable in the before-mentioned spaces 3, and the arms 7 are adapted when the scoop-board is swung downwardly to open position to bring up against the inner edges of the innermost strips 2. r

it will be apparent from the foregoing that the scoop-board 4 is adapted to be readily swung to and from the open position, and that when the scoop-board is swung to or placed in the fully closed position, it will constitute an efficientend-gate.

In order to detachably secure the scoopboard in the closed position, I provide the latch levers that are carried by the board, the said latch levers comprise rock-shafts 8 journaled in suitable hearings in the outer sides of the scoop-board, and having locking arms 9, adapted in one position to enter the spaces 3 of the wagon body, and in another position to be disposed in the recesses 10 in the outer sides of the scoopboard, and gravitational handle arms 11. The said handle arms 11 are arranged at the outer side of the scoop-board and have a tendency to gravitate to a pendent position. Consequently when the said handle arms 11 are held in a horizontal position and the scoop-board is closed, and the said handle arms 11 are released, the gravitational action of the said handle arms 11 will have the effect of disposing the locking arms 9 in the spaces 3 of the wagon body, so that the scoop-board will be fastened in closed position without liability of being casually released and permitted to move outwardly. When it is desired to open the scoop-board it is necessary for the operator to move the handle arms 11 to the horizontal'position and then pull the scoop-board into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

In order to lend increased strength to the scoop-board, I prefer to provide the same at its outer side with wooden cleats 12 adapted when the scoop-board is closed to rest between the rearmost strips 2 of the wagon body, and I also prefer to arrange on the said cleats 12 metallic strips 13 which are provided at their outer ends with angularly disposed arms 14. The free ends of these arms 14 are slightly flared as shown, and when the scoop-board is swung upwardly and forwardly to the closed position, the said arms 14 are adapted to assume positions at the outer sides of the side walls of the wagon body. When so disposed, the arms 14 on straps 13 will manifestly serve effectively in preventing outward movement of the rear ends of the side walls of the body, and in that way will lend increased strength to the construction as a whole.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent,

Thecombination with a wagon body open at itsrear end and having at the inner sides of its side walls spaced upright strips, of a scoop-board movably arranged between the side walls of the body and having side walls and exterior projections on said side walls and disposed and movable in the spaces between the strips of the body and also having recesses in the outer sides of the side walls,

wooden cleats fixed to the outer side of the scoop-board and arranged transversely thereof, metallic straps fixed to said cleats and having angularly disposed flared end arms adapted when the scoop-board is closed to assume positions at the outer sides of the rear end portions of the side walls of the body, outwardly directed arms at the inner ends of the side walls of the scoopboard and adapted to bring up against the inner edges of the innermost strips when the scoop-board is opened, and latch levers journaled in the scoop-board in a horizontal plane above said projections and having locking arms adapted to enter the spaces between the strips and the recesses in the scoop-board alternately and also having gravitational handle arms disposed and movable at the outer side of the scoop-board.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LEO H. MEYERPETER. 

